Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stubborn to the point of being inane backers of the Garden State bill have produced a new justification for their scheme a minute of silence may quell the disorder that has recently plagued many classrooms. In other words. 60 seconds of practice each day will train youngsters to remain ungetie straight through gometry period and the 3:00 pm belt. If true, why not ban all noise until lunch time. Or forbid the pint-sized calteria muggers and pre-pubsecent drug pushers from even speaking while on school property. This ought to whip the little troublemakers into shape. Meanwhile religious...
...despite 14% unemployment, the highest since the 1930s, Labor has been too preoccupied with factional squabbling to gain in the polls. Late surveys show Labor 13 percentage points behind the Conservatives and only three points ahead of the S.D.P.-Liberal alliance. Though Foot may finally have begun to quell opposition inside his party, there may not be enough time left before a general election to subdue the opposition outside...
...folks by throwing a huge party and inviting the entire summer school. Advertising posters offered "sex with handsome yucksters," among other attractions Mysteriously, the college comedians backed out at the last minute and kept the lobster and champagne for themselves. The Cambridge police had to be brought in to quell the disappointed crowd which had gathered outside of the Lampoon Castle...
...folks by throwing a huge party and inviting the entire summer school. Advertising posters offered "sex with handsome yucksters," among other attractions. Mysteriously, the college comedians backed out at the last minute and kept the lobster and champagne for themselves. The Cambridge police had to be brought in to quell the disappointed crowd which had gathered outside of the Lampoon Castle...
Whether these statesmanlike proclamations will quell the antinuclear protests that are scheduled to greet Reagan at each stop is unclear. A disarmament rally in London's Hyde Park on the day before Reagan arrives is expected to draw 200,000 people. In Bonn, a demonstration that has been planned since March may attract as many...